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urors find Stayner
sane during murder
AN JOSE. Calif. (AP) — Cary Stayner was
san< when he murdered three Yosemite National
Pari tourists in 1999, jurors agreed Monday in a
decision that means he could face the death penal
ty-
« he jury took less than four hours to reject the
defense claim the former motel handyman was
io uiulei si.nul U lull he was doing,
■stayner stood for the verdict
showed no emotion as it was
reao
■if he had been found insane,
Stiyner would have remained in
prison for life for another killing.
penalty phase of the trial, in
which the jury will decide
whether Stayner should be exe
cuted or sentenced to life in
prison, will begin Tuesday.
■The same jury convicted
Stayner last month of murdering
(■ole Sund, 42, her daughter,
Jul , 15, of Eureka, and their
Argentine friend, Silvina Pelosso,
16. while they were staying at the lodge where he
woi ked outside the park.
■Family members said they were relieved by the
dei ision.
■ “I always knew he was sane. Just seeing his
face you can tell,” said Silvina’s father, Pepe
Pelosso. “His confession speaks on its own. The
cold way he expressed the killings, there is no
doubt.”
Stayner, 41, already is serving a life sentence
for another 1999 slaying, that of park nature guide
Joie Annstrong. He had pleaded guilty in that case
in a deal that spared him from a possible death
sentence.
Defense attorney Marcia
Morrissey had argued that a lega
cy of family mental disorders, a
troubled childhood that included
the highly publicized kidnapping
of a brother, and voices he said
told him to “do the job” were
evidence Stayner was insane.
Prosecutors said proof of
Stayner’s sanity was in his con
fession to the FBI. in which he
detailed his methodical efforts to
cover his tracks.
Stayner strangled Carole Sund
and Pelosso and dumped their bod
ies in the trunk of a rental car that he later torched,
burning the victims’ bodies beyond recognition.
He sexually assaulted Juli Sund, slashed her throat
and covered her naked body with brush on a hill
side.
I always knew he
was sane. Just seeing
his face you can tell.
His confession
speaks on
its own.
- Pepe Pelosso
Victims father
^Chicago Tribune says
Greene met girl at office
■ CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago
Tribune columnist Bob Greene,
wpo resigned after it was dis-
clbsed he had a sexual encounter
wjth a teenager, met the girl at
hi$ office while she was working
on a school project, the newspa-
pei reported Monday.
■ The encounter happened
more than a decade ago and the
girl was of the age of legal con
sent, the Tribune reported, quot
ing mostly anonymous sources
familiar with the incident.
Greene asked the teenager to
dinner, and later wrote about her
in his column, the paper said.
I The Tribune also reported
Monday that the Chicago-area
woman telephoned Greene
twice in the last year. The
newspaper said after the sec
ond call, FBI agents called her,
saying she may be posing a
threat to the columnist.
The Tribune story does not
say why the FBI called the
woman, and the FBI would not
confirm the call. FBI spokes
woman Carrie McCune said the
bureau's Chicago office was
attempting to determine if any
complaints were made by
Greene or about him.
Greene resigned Saturday
night following an internal
investigation by the Tribune.
The newspaper said its probe
began after it received an anony
mous e-mail last week.
In a note on the front page of
Sunday’s editions, editor Ann
Marie Lipinski announced
Greene’s resignation, of which
Tribune executives have refused
to discuss many details.
Greene is married with two
children. It wasn't immediately
clear if he was married during
the encounter with the teenager.
He has declined to discuss
his resignation in detail. In an e-
mail message to The Associated
Press, he acknowledged “indis
cretions in my life that I am not
proud of” and said he was sorry.
Greene's resignation will be
felt at more than 100 newspa
pers around the nation that run
his syndicated column.
“Tribune Media Services
does not anticipate that it will
continue to syndicate Greene’s
column,” Walter Mahoney, a
media services vice president
said in a statement.
The news of Greene’s resig
nation after 30 years as a
nationally syndicated columnist
comes at a time when he is
hugely popular, both as a news
paper writer and author.
Astronaut on space station
promoted to science officer
K CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An astro
naut who has been toiling on the international
space station all summer got a promotion
Monday: She has been named the outpost’s first
sc ience officer.
I NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe informed
Peggy Whitson of her new title during a radio
hookup between Mission Control and the orbit
ing complex. He said someone will be designat-
ed a science officer on every succeeding space
station crew.
I O’Keefe said NASA wants to increase the
scientific potential of the space station now that
construction soon will be winding down. Only
17 months remain until the U.S. portion of the
station is complete.
“We need to utilize it better,” O’Keefe said.
Whitson, 42, who has a Ph.D. in biochem
istry, became the space station’s first full-
fledged research scientist when she moved into
the outpost in June with two Russian cosmo
nauts. They have two months remaining in their
mission.
“There could not be a better person to serve
as our first science officer,” said NASA’s chief
scientist. Shannon Lucid, an astronaut and bio
chemist who spent six months aboard Russia’s
old Mir station in 1996.
“I’m definitely having a great time,” Whitson
replied.“It’s not everybody who has their own
orbiting laboratory 200 and some miles above
the Earth.”
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